every human can think, nobody is saying you're dumb!
You can't deny that your country's system is unique in this world. Above 30 percent foreign workers, practically no females in the work force and low productivity rates. Oil money is the reason you're growing.
And Irankhodro was founded in 1962 with the cooperationg of the Brits and yes we were only assembling cars for a long time.
1) I would like to believe that KSA is much more advanced than the Iran of 1962
2) Irankhodro only became a proper car company after the revolution. I don't have the numbers from the pre-rev era but look at these:
in 1997 they broke their record of 111,111 cars produced
by 2006 Iran Khodro was producing 550,000
774,965 units of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in 2010
850 thousand cars in 2011
do you see the pattern? They only got to where they are now after they started standing on their own legs. The cars are becoming better and better each year. I remember the Peykans they produced when I was a kid, the word awful is an under-statement. Now they're producing cars like Dena.
They have officially become the world's fastest growing car company in history. In the future, they will be a giant.
KSA doesn't need Abdullah. KSA needs a cultural revolution. I said this before, KSA needs to pick its own niche and ban foreign products in that niche and start producing it. Kind of like an artificial sanction. Oil won't be here forever and I don't see how building universities or a few assembly lines going to replace 300 billion dollars of oil that KSA is producing now. Just imagine this, KSA exports 4 times more oil than Iran. When oil runs out, it will hit you guys HARDDDDD unless you can immidiately export something else instead. Right now Iran is more or less in the same shoe as KSA but the pattern is set. This year they will double last year's non oil exports of 20 billion (40 billion this year) and they want to make it 60 billion by 2015. The only way to do that is produce, even if it's junk. You can still export to Iraq or African countries lol